Month: September 2001

Too close to Israel

I used to live two blocks from the World Trade Center, and saw this tragedy coming years ago. Each year that passed, I was thankful and amazed it hadn’t happened yet.

At age 10, Nadia Larsen asked her father about his family, separated by World War II, because she longed to know her roots.

All he told her was that she came from “blue blood,” but the girl replied that her blood was red.

Lucy Dawidowicz, the late Holocaust historian, recalled that one day she received a phone call from a young man affiliated with Larry King’s American national talk-radio program. She was asked if she would be prepared to debate Robert Faurisson, a well-known anti-Semite who denies that Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Dawidowicz replied that Faurisson should not be provided a platform for his virulent anti-Semitism.

(CNSNews.com) — A Jewish rabbi has told the annual meeting of an international Catholic organization that “[Pope] Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler,” contrary to press accounts over the last several years that claimed Pius XII did little or nothing to prevent the holocaust. Several Jewish organizations have also criticized Pius XII for his alleged failure to act.